The Washington State Legislature is hard at work, passing symbolic resolutions to defend the state's strategic asparagus industry from consumer choices:
Summary of Bill: Congress is asked to eliminate the preference given to asparagus products under the Andean Trade Preference Act and refuse to extend any further protection to Andean asparagus producers upon expiration of the act.Unless we subsidize our local asparagus growers, we may never be able to discover a cure for the side-effects of eating asparagus. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 23, 2004 05:59 PM